AuthorTopic: Academic Renewal? (Read 1687 times)

Does anyone know anything about this? I'm looking into it at the community college I attended six years ago. I have a 3.8 gpa at the University I go to now, but when I recalculated my LSAC gpa, it went down to a 3.3 (which I have an extremely justifiable reason for my grades at c.c.) I'm scoring between 165-170 on PT's but after recalculating I figure I might as well not even go to law school. Anyways any info. on this academic renewal process would be great. Can you "renew" more than one semester?

Also, if I can't get any of the bad grades off my transcript, do you think it's worth waiting a year to apply so this coming year's grades would be accounted for? If I did this, my lsac gpa would go up to a 3.55 and I would graduate with probably a 3.85.

Yeah, I talked to the LSAC and they pretty much said, "we don't care; we're counting ALL grades, even if you didn't get credit for them." Totally bums me out and I don't know what to do. It's tough going from a 3.8 to a 3.3. It's not that I don't want to go to law school that bad, I do. I just know I can get a really good score on the LSAT but it's not going to pay off because of my GPA.

If I wait and take a year off, I can send my transcripts in after this year's grades are posted on my transcript. My LSDAS gpa will be around a 3.55. Would you do that and take a year off or would you just apply this fall and pray?

Well, if you're confident about your LSAT performance (I'm assuming perhaps your practice tests are high), then you'll have an excellent chance to go to a really good school.

I don't know what your plans are, like what area you want to live/work in, or what your soft factors are.

Do a lot of research on this board and lawschoolnumbers.com. I think you'll be surprised at where people go with certain numbers, every situation is different. A high LSAT will offset your GPA (which is not that bad) at a lot of schools.

As for taking a year off, thats up to you. If you LSAT is 170+, I don't think the difference in GPA will make too much of a difference. It's all a journey..